Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...
...proclaims a song called Hoffa's Blues, on sale on records last week in the lobby of the Miami Beach Auditorium. Inside, the 1,845 delegates to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention indeed rolled in for President James Hoffa just about all that he could wish-with the possible exception of his tormentors' heads...
...program does not even list a director. It turns out that Allen Fletcher left before the job was done and Margaret Webster was called in to take up the reins. This is not the first time that such unprofessional conduct has been in evidence at the Festival, and I wish it would be the last...
...prostitutes with the flowing tails of ponies. But the whores, pimps, sadists and lesbians who people his plays are also his army of revenge marshaled against the world. The ritual murder of a white woman in The Blacks is a Negro act only insofar as it contains the death wish of the outcast for the society that excludes...
...mutineer. He reads the riot act to his times in the accents of self-hatred. Bill Maitland says, "I myself am more packed with spite and twitching with revenge than anyone I know of. I actually often, frequently, daily want to see people die for their errors. I wish to kill them myself, to throw the switch with my own fist." There is little that Osborne does not abominate. With passion, grief, and hysteria, he records the unease of all the 20th century's displaced...